Women Studies

"After the Silence," Movie Screening & Discussion

This movie is based on the true story of a young Deaf woman who escaped the life-long abuse inflicted by her father, her mother and her brothers.  This young woman was denied the education which would have taught her to communicate.  But most of all, this is a  story with a positive message of commitment, compassion, and the human spirit's ability to grow and deepen despite the fears and prejudices of others.
This movie is also a shout out to the dedicated people and agencies who pulled together to help one person change her life.

This film showing is sponsored by OSU Women's Center, OSU Women Studies, OSU Office of Equity and Inclusion, and OSU Memorial Union.  For more information regarding the movie and the discussion of it afterwards, please click here!

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE MA IN WOMEN STUDIES FOR FALL 2012!

You can now apply online at http://oregonstate.edu/admissions/graduate-students for the MA in Women Studies to begin Fall 2012.  While we will accept applications year round, you must apply by April 15 to be considered for a Graduate Teaching Assistantship.  For more information, contact Dr. Susan M. Shaw at sshaw@oregonstate.edu.

To view degree requirements, click here.    To see a list of Women Study faculty and affiliated faculty members, click here!

Oregon State University's Office of Equity and Inclusion (OEI) is committed to success for the entire campus community through equality, fairness, and udnerstanding.  The OEI provides expertise and leadership on a range of topics related to equity, inclusion, and diversity and is looking for graduate students with strong commitment in these areas.  The office is seeking to fill up to three Graduate Assistant positions for the 2012-13 academic year: 

• Accessibility: Addressing inclusion and advocacy needs of individuals with disabilities;
• Communications: Enhancing and expanding the presence of the Office of Equity and Inclusion on campus, online, and in the broader community;
• Women's Advancement and Gender Equity: Advancing key projects identified as priorities for women's advancement and gender equity.

Position descriptions and details about the application process are available here: http://oregonstate.edu/oei/graduate.

Whether you are or are contemplating becoming one of our undergraduate majors, minors, or graduate students, this site should offer answers to many of your questions. Women Studies at OSU offers a major, minor, and certificate at the undergraduate level. The Women Studies Program at Oregon State University was founded in 1972 and currently has four full time faculty and more than 50 affiliated faculty members.

Women Studies is the multidisciplinary study of women's lives and experiences.

Course work explores women's realities in such areas as the political and social sciences, health, psychology, history, literature, and the arts. Women Studies programs grew out of the women's movement. Such programs involve understandings of sexist discrimination in society and a need to celebrate women's strengths, contributions, and forms of resistance. Grounded in this feminist knowledge, Women Studies is constantly growing and changing in order to understand and affirm the role that issues of race, social class, age, ability, appearance, and sexual identity play in women's everyday lives.

We hope you will find Women Studies to be academically and personally rewarding. It is our goal to provide a program that is intellectually sound and vocationally useful, as well as one that encourages personal growth.

You will have the opportunity to study in a large, well-developed program and yet one that emphasizes informality, warmth, and personal concern for you and your educational goals.

Course offerings are varied and representative of current issues and research. The OSU program stresses the need for multidisciplinary viewpoints and knowledge. It encourages independent thinking and self-directed study in a supportive, yet intellectually challenging learning environment.

Women Studies at OSU offers a major, minor, and certificate at the undergraduate level, primary and secondary areas in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies, and a graduate minor.

Thanks for visiting our web site. Please feel free to contact us if you have further questions.  Susan M. Shaw, Director.